(December 3, 2013 at 7:46 am)whateverist Wrote:(December 3, 2013 at 7:23 am)Brian37 Wrote: Well if you say you are a Christian the core belief is that Jesus was the son of the one true god. Now strip him of all his magic powers, (kinda like Jefferson did) then he is just a man. Still would be no evidence of that God itself.
If you admit you have no evidence then you seriously need to consider that there is nothing there in what you chose to believe other than you merely find it comforting. Harry Potter and Star Wars have pleasant motifs in them too, but everyone accepts them as the fiction we know they are.
Brian this sounds an awful lot like so many of the xtians who show up here intent on telling us what it means to be an atheist. Jacob says he is a Christian. Shouldn't we allow him to say what that means to him?
No it is not the same.
I am sure it means what he thinks to him. But the common core all Christians claim to have is that Jesus was the son of the one true god. If he believes it, then he is a Christian.
I am sure he believes in some form of "Christianity". So?
He admitted he had no evidence, all I was saying is that if he admits that then it should send up a red flag and tell him something.
I never said he was not a Christian, I said if you have no evidence then maybe they need to rethink their position rather than try to defend it.
Atheists are diverse as well in their political leanings worldviews and I have run into some with their own woo. But no matter how we as atheists want to view the word there is still the core of lack of belief.
